Redoubtable

The Redoubtable was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy that was launched on 31 May 1791 and sunk on 22 October 1805. The ship was a part of the Brest squadron until the Quiberon mutinies of 1793, and the ship took part in many battles of the French Revolutionary Wars, including the failed 1796 expedition to Ireland. In 1803, the ship ferried troops to Haiti during the Haitian Revolution, and she was sent to Pierre-Charles Villeneuve's Mediterranean fleet during the Napoleonic Wars. A sniper in the rigging of Redoubtable shot and killed Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar, and the ship was captured by the British Royal Navy during the battle, with most of her crew being killed by grapeshot. The ship was wrecked by a gae the day after the battle.